Química Nova (Apr 2014)

Eletrodo compósito à base de grafite-Araldite®: aplicações didáticas - parte II

  • Carolina Maria Fioramonti Calixto,
  • Sidney Xavier dos Santos,
  • Éder Tadeu Gomes Cavalheiro

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5935/0100-4042.20140061
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 37, no. 2
pp. 367 – 372

Abstract

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This work proposes the use of a graphite-Araldite® 70% (graphite, m/m) composite electrode in didactic experiments, specifically in the quantitative determination of the neurotransmitter dopamine (DA) in a sample of pharmaceutical formulation. The goal is to demonstrate the possibility of using voltammetric techniques in quality control of medicines, besides covering some concepts such as the influence of pH on the redox process, the differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) technique, the optimization of experiments and comparison with an official method described in the United States Pharmacopoeia.

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